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    Didn't somebody else have that avatar on here?

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    It's the really stoned guy from the memes.

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    That's the lad.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ian View Post
    Didn't somebody else have that avatar on here?
    I may have had it before.

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    Lorraine Kelly has won 1.2 million back from the taxman claiming that he isn't appearing on television but is playing a character called Lorraine Kelly.

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    Which, if that's the line over which the case is judged, is the correct conclusion to reach.

    Absolutely no way is that 24/7 smiley persona actually her.

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    I still remember the slightly terrifying advert for a programme she was doing that was basically just wall-to-wall "are you ___?" (my mum / father of my child / my secret clone / whatever) where she actually said the line "You can't choose your family, but you can disown them."

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    How does that get her off tax?

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    The breakfast TV presenter Lorraine Kelly is performing the role “of a friendly, chatty and fun personality” when she appears on ITV each morning and not simply appearing as herself, a tax tribunal judge has ruled.


    The presenter of the magazine show Lorraine “presents a persona of herself”, Judge Jennifer Dean ruled, and as such can be described as a “theatrical artist”, meaning payments to an agent were allowed as a tax deductible expense.


    “We did not accept that Ms Kelly simply appeared as herself; we were satisfied that Ms Kelly presents a persona of herself,” Dean’s ruling stated.


    “We should make clear we do not doubt that Ms Kelly is an entertaining lady, but the point is that for the time Ms Kelly is contracted to perform live on air she is public ‘Lorraine Kelly’; she may not like the guest she interviews, she may not like the food she eats, she may not like the film she viewed but that is where the performance lies.”


    The remarks came in a ruling by the first tier tax tribunal into a successful appeal by Kelly against a £1.2m tax and national insurance bill from HMRC.


    The TV presenter received the bill as part of the revenue’s crackdown on personal services companies used by a host of stars employed by national broadcasters.
    It has argued that the presenters are effectively employees, and should be subject to income tax and national insurance contributions (Nics).
    Me neither.

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    If the argument is that TV presenters and actors who appear on TV should be treated the same in terms of whether their agents' fees are tax deductible, then surely that makes sense?

    Obviously there's entirely different arguments about what many of these people get up to in terms of their tax affairs, but that doesn't seem all that outrageous.

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    I'm sure Terry Bollea managed to successfully argue that it was Hulk Hogan and not himself that appeared on that sex tape.

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    He cashed the cheque either way.

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    I’d make a sex tape with Lorraine Kelly.
    I'm a twit

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    https://news.sky.com/story/dr-evil-t...onths-11671500

    There is a lot in this, but the stand-out must be 'He stated that had he known it was illegal, he would never have had the procedure because he certainly was not that desperate to have his ear removed'. Right. He must feel a right mug now.

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    If there's anything keeping anti-Irish sentiment alive on these Isles it's suspect packages coming from IRA whoppers with codewords, not Alan Partridge.

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    Mrs Brown causes more anti Irish sentiments than the IRA these days.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
    If there's anything keeping anti-Irish sentiment alive on these Isles it's suspect packages coming from IRA whoppers with codewords, not Alan Partridge.
    It's well bred in to you all, but yeah that doesn't help either. Hopefully this is just a lone nutjob, it's amateur enough that it probably is anyway.

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    Spikey O'Mouse has nothing but love.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Disco View Post
    Mrs Brown causes more anti Irish sentiments than the IRA these days.
    Mrs Brown surely causes more anti-people who watch Mrs Brown sentiment than anything else, and I've never assumed they were predominantly (or at all) Irish.

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    I'm a Mrs Brown contrarian. It's a load of silly gags and moderately funny slapstick. What's wrong with that?

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    Nobody under 60 watches it here, I presume it's the same there too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    I'm a Mrs Brown contrarian. It's a load of silly gags and moderately funny slapstick. What's wrong with that?
    Yeah, it's not that bad.

    Those letter bombs that were sent the other week - I don't get why they sent one to Galsgow Uni.

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    It is fine, that's the point.

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    Giggles' relentless insistent that the British all vehemently hate the Irish is one of the weirdest things I've ever come across. I've never met a single person who remotely cares. I've never heard an anti-Irish sentiment uttered in real life. "Bred into you all"

    Admittedly most people in Norfolk have never seen a black person, so perhaps they just don't know what Ireland is, but still.

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    It makes it even funnier as his entire identity on this forum is "I don't care about things, nothing is important" and yet Irish patriotism is for some reason his bellwether issue. Like Lewis and his weightlifting/colonialism

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    Quote Originally Posted by randomlegend View Post
    Giggles' relentless insistent that the British all vehemently hate the Irish is one of the weirdest things I've ever come across. I've never met a single person who remotely cares. I've never heard an anti-Irish sentiment uttered in real life. "Bred into you all"

    Admittedly most people in Norfolk have never seen a black person, so perhaps they just don't know what Ireland is, but still.
    I think there genuinely used to be amongst older folk in the mid-90s, but I don't think anyone from my generation or younger gives a shit.

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    Ders more ta oirland den dis.

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    It's like one of those one-sided football 'rivalries', like Blackburn thinking United is a derby. They are convinced United are still fuming about their title, which the odd person might be, but most people probably don't know that they even won one (further parallels available relating to Indian mismanagement).

    See also: every single post Henners has made about Brexit, which either completely mis-understands it or is bristling with completely out of character sentiment.

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    I’ve recently started listening to Blindboy Boatclubs podcast and in episode 7 (I think) he goes pretty hard on a “Brits don’t get taught about how they’ve raped Ireland, the focus is on the unacademics to have national pride and join the army, so why would they?” I couldn’t give a toss either way (soz Giggles) but he puts it across quite well.
    I'm a twit

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    I tried that podcast, although not that episode. It's an abortion. The self important, over-opinionated mong

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    Didn't Al Murray do something half-decent about Ireland on that why everyone hates the English thing? Although I tend to think Lewis' interpretation is about right. See also Manchester being better than London, Melbourne being better than Sydney or every other chippy smaller place versus ambivalent bigger place relationship in the world. There's probably one pertaining to the UK/English, I don't know, thinking they're better than everyone? There's always an exception to the rule.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post
    I tried that podcast, although not that episode. It's an abortion. The self important, over-opinionated mong
    He is an absolute twat of the highest order. A fucking blowhard. And unfortunately he's a good example of an ever growing section of cunts here. All posturing.


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    Quote Originally Posted by niko_cee View Post
    There's probably one pertaining to the UK/English, I don't know, thinking they're better than everyone? There's always an exception to the rule.
    America. See our American Politics thread being twice the size of our UK one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post
    America. See our American Politics thread being twice the size of our UK one.
    I couldn't figure out what he meant by a lot of that so I'll just assume the whole post was like an ad for the EDL.

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    I take his meaning to be a smaller places obsession with big places that don't give a fuck about you.

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    Most people OBSESSED with America - especially in a political context - tend to look down on them, so I don't think it is really the same as the latent, inter-generational bitterness that emanates from the Celtic fringe. It might be deluded, but it isn't the same, since mere long-term relative decline isn't really conducive to developing that sort of complex. The closest thing we have is how we think Germany care about us as football rivals. They don't.

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    Britain just has delusions of grandeur thinking they're still an empire/their empire was good.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boydy View Post
    Britain just has delusions of grandeur thinking they're still an empire/their empire was good.
    Right up to actually thinking the EU were going to spread the cheeks and offer everything in desperation to keep ties with said empire.

    I don't blame the school system for brainwashing kids into thinking they were swashbuckling heroes instead of animals in history classes, it's classless but they don't want a generation with a complex, but even in adulthood everyone remains completely oblivious.


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    Everyone, yes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggles View Post
    He is an absolute twat of the highest order. A fucking blowhard. And unfortunately he's a good example of an ever growing section of cunts here. All posturing.
    What makes you say this?

    He seems pretty passionate about Ireland and Irish people, including wanting to share his wealth of knowledge of the history of Ireland, and especially Limerick, albeit heavily biased. I’d be interesting to know what problems you have with him.
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    Quite enjoyed (for once) Jonathan Pie - speaks to Boydy's post a little.


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    Pissing hell.

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    Mate.

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    That's rough

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    She's fucking demented.

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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47715169

    If and when people start to die of this shit, the Anti-vax parents should face manslaughter charges.

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    I didn't realise there was a Chicken Pox vaccine until this started popping up recently. Was it invented recently or were my parents just cheap and had me get it off some other kid? God that was a miserable few days.

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